Quotes About Forgiveness

The years forget our errors and forgive our sins, but they punish our inaction with living death.

The blood of Jesus speaks forgiveness: it gives God the legal right to forgive sins.

Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your

No one on their death bed wishes they would've been meaner.

Forgiveness is also important because, as a study of surgical errors found, "when a subordinate sees his technical errors are forgiven, he recognizes there is no incentive to hide them. He is less likely, therefore, to compound his problems by attempting to treat problems that are over his head for fear of superordinate reprisal.

Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don't forgive and forget.

T]he best bosses master the fine art of emotional detachment. They learn to forgive people who lash out at them... and they learn to forgive themselves, too.

people "who don't have a chance to take revenge are forced, in a sense, to move on and focus on something different.

Mennonite pastor Arthur Paul Boers offers similar advice in his book Never Call Them Jerks. Boers suggests that when parishioners are hostile and selfish, labeling them as jerks is insulting and detracts from a constructive focus on repairing relationships and changing behavior.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. – That he will not torture the forgiving. – Upon that rock I stand. – That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star, in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand. The honest man, the good woman, the happy child, have nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come. Upon that rock I stand.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

Along the way there was one thing that held me back, as it does so many other silent sons. This one thing burdens us like a heavy unwanted blanket. Unless we kick it off, it will destroy us. This one thing is—anger.

Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow.

by Him to reconcile all things to Himself . . .having made peace through the blood of His cross. – Colossians 1:20

I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, "Father, I have sinned." – Luke 15:18

By grace you have been saved. – Ephesians 2:5

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. – Romans 8:1

Mercy there was great, and grace was free; Pardon there was multiplied to me; There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. – 1 Timothy 1:15

Romans 12:18 If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.

Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. – Romans 4:7

Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! – John 1:29